scytheavatar said:Akame ga Kill didn't sell well because it's really a generic fighting shounen series using edgy to disguise it as something deeper than it is. It's extremely rare for generic fighting shounen series to move BD/DVDs unless it has the support of the Fujoshis like Ao no Exorcist and Magi had. I bet Nanatsu no Taizai is going to sell significantly less than Akame ga Kill, even though it's already a massive success looking at the manga copies it had moved.

Akame ga Kill didn't sell well because it's really a generic fighting shounen series using edgy to disguise it as something deeper than it is. It's extremely rare for generic fighting shounen series to move BD/DVDs unless it has the support of the Fujoshis like Ao no Exorcist and Magi had. I bet Nanatsu no Taizai is going to sell significantly less than Akame ga Kill, even though it's already a massive success looking at the manga copies it had moved.

Zapredon said:No point arguing whether AgK is good anime because all these are subjective. What makes a good anime are different from each individual unless you are one of those self proclaim elitist and think everyone need to have same taste as you. SAO and Gundam Seed are selling like hot cake and better than most anime but most people in MAL wouldn't call both of those anime masterpiece. Shinsekai Yori anime sales is crap but people still consider it a great anime here in MAL. From sales perspective, things like publicity does help your sales which AgK didn't get much,thus lack of viewership and sales.

No point arguing whether AgK is good anime because all these are subjective. What makes a good anime are different from each individual unless you are one of those self proclaim elitist and think everyone need to have same taste as you. SAO and Gundam Seed are selling like hot cake and better than most anime but most people in MAL wouldn't call both of those anime masterpiece. Shinsekai Yori anime sales is crap but people still consider it a great anime here in MAL. From sales perspective, things like publicity does help your sales which AgK didn't get much,thus lack of viewership and sales.

And AKG, well it’s no surprise that they went with an anime original ending. There’s no way they get a second season with those sales figures.

Except its their own fault.

They have exact those sales figures BECAUSE they messed up the adaptation.

Stop deluding yourself. This show had a decent run for like 19 episodes (even according to the majority of mangareaders) and volume 1 had still shit sales.

So it didn't even sell when it was faithful to the manga eh? I find that amusing

It was NEVER faithful to manga.

It was skipping stuff like character growth and story information ever since the first episode, not to mention generic-ized art style and toned down, well, everything.

Roloko said:

CookingPriest said:

Roloko said:

I haven't read the manga to Akame ga Kill! (I always wait until after the anime is finished) it seems like with Magi I will have to read it from the start if people saying the anime did injustice to the manga.

Injustice is way too gentle of a word for what they did.

This is more on the level of what Studio DEEN did with 2006 FSN or what BEETRAIN did with Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle adaptation.

Oh god Tsubasa Chronicles those terrible fillers and I heard they left out some arcs as well. It was alright until they skipped the Tokyo arc for shitty filler. Thankfully Production I.G handled it and it was glorious.

Yeah TRC skipped important story arcs, completely changed and generic-ized characterization of ALL the characters, toned down the violence in every single arc and basically decided to turn what is quite dark shonen action show into a fluffy shoujo rehash of CCS.

AKG does the similar thing. Changed character designs(for the worse), cut out character development and growth moments(gotta add anime original fanservice after all), cut out story information(like the fact that timeskips happened, etc) and past EP10 or so they outright combined two separate story arcs into one and skipped shitload of content, shitting on every single character in show.

Manga is no masterpiece by all means but it was hell of a way better than that.